This article highlights the issues related to serialization incompatibility and offers guidelines for ensuring the proper use of version control for serialized objects.

The process of serialization and deserialization, especially of input from untrusted sources, has been the cause of many remote code execution vulnerabilities in a variety of programming languages.

Moreover, XML serialization and deserialization (serde-xml-rs) are not as straightforward as in other languages like Python or Java, adding extra overhead for developers.